John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I visited everything.
as many stores as I could, maybe a hundred stores around the country and said goodbye.
And it was so wonderful because I got so much love from people and I gave so much love and it was very teary eyed stuff.
And so I had a great last year.
Wow.
I wish people could, that's the best way to leave the company.
And, you know, I still have so many good relationships with people there.
Do you?
Sure.
People still know me.
I go into a store.
I go into that El Segundo store to shop here because it's next to Love Life.
And yeah, people know me there.
They talk to me, come up and talk to me.
Jason.
Well, I mean, you think about what does a leader like me do?
This is a good tip for entrepreneurs out there.
One of the questions as I grew the business that I asked myself and continue to ask me at the very end, what does the company most need me to do now?
And that answer will change over time as the business grows.
At the early days, what they needed me to do was run a store.